Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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